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Former Bank of England Governor Lord King has said that the economic costs of Britain leaving the European Union have been "exaggerated", as he accused those on both sides of the forthcoming EU referendum debate of treating it like a "public relations campaign".

"One should be very cautious of precise, numerical estimates of what the consequences would be," Lord King warned in an interview with Bloomberg, in a reference to Government analysis published this week.